Well I took an arrow to the knee in Skyrim. Haven’t been the same since. I went from being a powerful mercenary to peeling potatoes at the local tavern. Ah well…
As to your idea. That sounds at least like the base for a good story. I like it.
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I do think fantasy is more enjoyable when somewhat grounded by rules and logic.
In a setting where magic is vastly overpowered and capable of doing things that greatly affects one’s reality, the more mundane means of combat become lackluster.
What purpose does have a warrior when a single spellcaster can level down an entire city with a rain of meteors?
Of course, setting down rules for how a fantasy reality works required effort and skill, something that most writers lack.
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Depends on the universe, but there can be a multitude of reasons that melee weapons can be justified in scifi universes.
Dune famously uses shields that would simply deflect projectiles and would cause a cascade nuclear explosion if hit with an energy weapon. As such, swords and daggers are used as a slow push can penetrate these shields.
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Yes, I have read stories, played games and watched movies that had logical reasons for using melee weapons instead of more powerful ranged weapons. Example: Space ship crew won’t use projectile or energy ranged weapons inside a space ship for fear of breaching the ship’s hull. Yeah that’s a good reason.
My gripe is stories where, like in Star Ocean the hero on the planet surface goes to fight giant poison spewing mechanical scorpions with his sword. That’s just like bringing a knife to a gunfight!
And just look at what he is fighting! A monstrosity that’s bigger then his apartment complex in Idaho. The thing is a giant robot. This thing fires missiles and death-rays. Our hero is trying to fight it with a sword! A Sword!? Yo bro time to get a freaking rocket launcher!
Yeah, and even in late 1800s japan, armies started to incorporate black powder muskets and canons. Even in the movie The Last Samurai. The film was all about how the Samurai were slaughtered by rifle wielding imperial troops. So the Japanese know that Ranged Weapons are better than swords. It’s the Game Studios that don’t get it. Or as those studios like to put it. We as creative people are artists and we at times employ artistic license in the production of our games.
To the Game studio’s that think swords are better to fight galactic wars with. Take a hint from the game “Gears of War” Yeah. The gear troopers fight at range with a nifty mini chainsaw thing on the rifles for close quarters. But at least that makes sense.
You’re missing the point, though: Swords are cool.
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No it doesn’t lmao. Chainsaws are terrible weapons and sticking one on a gun makes zero sense. It would make the gun significantly heavier, make it’s balance significantly worse and poses the issue of jamming any time that you’d actually use the gun.
Not to mention they require an additional fuel source meaning not only does any soldier using one also have to carry ammo, they also have to carry fuel for their chainsaw when they run out of ammo.
Makes far more sense to just do what militaries have done for centuries and use a bayonet if you want to make your rifle a viable melee weapon.
Chainsaw guns exist for the same reason that swords exist in universes where the gun is a more practical answer. Because they’re cool.
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Yes I agree with you there. I never was a fan of the Gears Chainsaw attachment. A bayonet would of been better. But the game creators thought it would look oh so cool. What can I say?
I’d like to bring up! Phantasy Star, a long running JRPG franchise has been using beam swords to fight bad things, including a final boss that’s just chilling inside a treasure chest that’s the incarnation of everything evil.
Consider Star Wars. There’s a lot of ranged weaponry but there’s those who stick with Lightsabers. Personally, I’d use a Slugthrower (basically a big gun) because if a person with a lightsaber came up and tried to deflect it, bam! They’d get a bunch of buckshot because you can’t deflect the Slugthrower projectiles!
For some reason the Sith didn’t think of this…as far as I know.
Well, now you know why swords exist in IP’s with either gunpowder or magic strong enough to level cities.
Cause they’re cool.
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Besides not running out of ammo a sword in space would be safer as well. You figure you are floating around in a vacuum with a few stray atoms or dust particles here and there in what is essentially a metal bubble. Last thing you want to do is start spraying high caliber bullets or flinging grenades around.
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Cause the point of Star Wars was to never actually use practical weapons. If you wanted to kill a planet, you wouldn’t build a spaceship the size of a moon.
You’d just attach some rockets to an asteroid and point it in their direction.
The point of Star Wars was to tell a story about space wizards. Space wizards are far less cool if they just get hard-countered by a gun.
Hahahahaha and BAM! lol. Oh this was a good one! Thank you!
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Not really a sword but the spear of Longinus in evangelion. That throw into space scene always gets me.
And then there’s final fantasy 7 and Cloud. Also Auron in X.
Wouldn’t the Jedi just use the force to deflect the slugthrower instead of the lightsaber. I mean they can use the force to throw fighter planes and giant rocks around I’d think solid shot wouldn’t be much harder.
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Now that you mention Force Powers the most unbelievable seen in a Star Wars movie was when the Emperor Palatine used his force powers to raise an entire fleet of Imperial battle cruisers out of the ocean and send them into space…Come On Now?!
It’s never good to think too hard about the logic in Star Wars.
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It’s good to be the all powerful God Emperor!
Just, stay away from ledges and stuff.
Shhhh! If you want to blow up a planet, you need a giant moon base thing! And rebuild it two or three times…
In theory, yes! You could, but the way it works is that a Slugthrower projectile shatters when hit with a Lightsaber, making it become basically buckshot. You’d need to have inhumanly fast reflexes to Push those away before you get eviscerated by a lot of metal objects.
The latest trilogy pulled some fancy nonsense, but I don’t think even Rey could pull that one off.
but we not have pistols like Dante or a 1H magnun, you mean the customization and transmog of weapons and gears of the game? I have to disappoint you but as long as there is no new bikini or skimpy armor that is not MoP, TBC and Vanilla, we also do not have those types of weapons if that is what you mean.
and it’s Fantasy, you said it, especially when the technology comes from goblins, titans and gnomes, and it annoyed us with a game where the origin of this universe was made by robots.
Once and for all Blizzard get into the world of JRPG with magic technology, it’s nano androids waifus anime loli girls it worked great and there’s no need to be Japanese or Square Enix to do it.
And worse than fruits in female sexy womans, lizards with wings and a single class, and podcasts expansion reveal does not work to present a new expansion.
I mean considering lightspeed travel is possible in Star Wars, all it would take is a decently sized ship piloted by a droid (with a brick on the accelerator) and you could destroy pretty much whatever you wanted.
But clearly multiple death stars are the practical answer. With exposed weaknesses. Because what’s the odds of a plucky group of youngsters destroying your planet killing base (that basically uses a planets worth of resources) with a lucky shot THREE times in a row?